A study of the conditions and directions of spatial management of a mu-nicipality is one of the most important planning documents prepared at a local level. As an instrument for creating the spatial policy it is the initial document to formulate the local law. It constitutes an act of guidance, defining the planning in-tentions of the municipal authorities, and therefore its findings must be unambigu-ous, legible and understandable. The subject of this analysis is such study of Lądek Zdrój, a municipality in the province of Lower Silesia. The document turns out to contain much ambiguity. The authors use concepts that are incomprehensible, undefined and often mislead-ing. Provisions of the study are not clear enough to allow their transfer to local law. There is therefore a possibility that there might be no correlation between the analyzed study, and the future legal acts prepared at a lower level. ...
Existing advantages of health resort Ladek Zdroj is huge capital for devel-opment of new branches of tourism. Current functioning of system, where the pri-ority has medical tourism, must change its meaning. The type of potential and forecasted trends of healthcare shows that recreational tourism should be main factor determining progress. Its scope covers both agricultural tourism and health resort tourism, where consumer is both person only residing in health re-sort and person utilizing its infrastructure (no matter whether for health regenera-tion or physical rehabilitation. The touristic product should be place identity. The customer should be interested by advantages so that he/she is not only encouraged to arrival but also decides to do it. ...
